JL’s book [Prehistoric times (1865)] is "most original".

Wishes him success in politics.

Delighted at CD’s praise of his book [Prehistoric times (1865)].

Returns [Fritz?] Müller’s work [probably Für Darwin (1864)]. It is a remarkable memoir.

Has read abstract of JL’s paper ["On the present state of archaeological science", Athenæum 21 July 1866, pp. 79–82] and praises it.

Returns Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].

Anxious to make acquaintance of Ernst Haeckel [who was staying with CD].

Asks JL to look up a paper by Thomas Hincks on Polyzoa or Bryozoa [Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 2d ser. 1 (1861): 278–81].

JL’s brother-in-law [Robert Birkbeck] would like a note of introduction to John Murray.

Encloses note of introduction to Murray.

H. T. Stainton should be elected F.R.S.

Discusses the practice of exogamy; asks if any animals have an instinctive repugnance to inbreeding.

Close inbreeding and factors acting against it.

Thanks CD for information.

Returns R. G. Haliburton’s paper ["The unity of the human race proved by the universality of certain superstitions connected with sneezing", reprinted in New materials for the history of man (1863)] and sends one of his own partly in answer to it ["The early condition of man", Anthropol. Rev. 6 (1868): 1–14].

Capital BAAS meeting at Dundee.

Wants information on Fuegian harpoons. Must prepare second edition of Prehistoric times.

Introduction of humble-bees into Australia.

Many thanks for the book [Variation].

Discusses [Fritz?] Müller’s confusion about ova and pseudova; JL’s Daphnia paper [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100; see 1979] first demonstrated their structural identity.

Points out a misleading statement in Variation.

Returns Anthropological Review.

Asks to borrow Desmarest on Crustacea [Considérations générales sur la classe des crustacés (1825)].

Has been reading JL’s address to the Entomological Society [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 3d. ser. 5 (1865–7): cxiii–cxxxi].

Would like to hear JL’s conclusion for or against Pangenesis.

Found [Variation] full of interest. Has not yet made up his mind about Pangenesis; wants to hear what can be said against it.